NEWS RELEASE

20 December 2002

East Asia implements Athena Bookings for its retail outbound business.

East Asia Travel has selected Athena to provide the full solution to automate its office automation and provide facility for a centralised management for its two offices. Once the system is installed, East Asia will be able to centrally manage reservations from either offices and interact through Athena Bookings.

Once Athena Bookings is implemented, the previous paper-shuffling routines from one office to another would be of history and this will certainly provide a better service to its customers.

Joanne Chia, GM, said "We need an IT provider to advise us the lowest cost implementation but with high return value on our operations. The system must be able to sustain our growth and fulfil our needs for a more streamlined operations."

About East Asia Travel
East Asia Travel Corporation is a subsidiary of Corporate Travel (TQ3) that specialises in outbound tour packages.